Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31398341-20170409101440/@comment-31398341-20170617075509

Heliolisk

Well, all I can think of it is a better version of Jolteon because it has double STAB and has an immunity to water types. When combined with its decent special defense, it is a very effective offensive counter for special water types. With this, I would rank it as the same as Mega Manectric.

Klinklang

Honestly I cannot find real reason to justify the use of Klinklang over Aegislash or Scizor.

Noivern

Probably another niche pokemon. In many ways it is outclassed by other special attackers like Mega Charizard Y which basically has about double power that Noivern has and also Latios and Latias. However, Noivern can distinguish itself from other wallbreakers with its higher speed and somewhat better movepool. Otherwise other special attackers are better addition to the team.

Other:

Unranked regular Salamence due to being outclassed by both Dragonite and Mega Salamence. No real reason to use it over those two tbh.

Ranked Latios due to being best specially offensive dragon type as of now. Many different resistances and ground immunity, good STAB combination (Psychic and Dragon) and relatively good speed tier makes it being very effective and easy to fit on balanced or offensive teams.

Ranked Latias below Latios a bit due to lower special attack. Higher defenses does not perfectly make up for it. Actually, it is a very good pokemon but it is just compete with Latios for a teamslot, which makes it rank lower.

Ranked Mega Latias due to its high bulk while having good offensive presence, which makes it one of the best Calm Mind users.

Not rank Mega Latios because there are no reason to use it over regular Latios with Life Orb.

Latios : A

Latias : B+

Mega Latias : A

Heliolisk : C+

Noivern : C-

Salamence : B >>> Unranked